Women fail to build on victory over Caltech as Oxy controls the glass in 88-42 loss The Sagehens (4-18, 2-9 SCIAC) came up short in their attempt to win back-to-back games after their victory over Caltech on Thursday night, losing to the Occidental Tigers (14-8, 9-2 SCIAC) by a score
Author: Nathan Barnett
Sagehens Sweep Paci?c to Start Campaign
The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team improved their record to 3-0 for the season with two wins over the visiting Pacific University Boxers on Saturday, following their 10-3 victory in the opener on Friday. In Game 1 of the doubleheader, Pacific catcher Conor Clark knocked in two runs in the second inning
World Series Showdown: Rangers
FOX is pretty upset about this World Series—ratings are likely to be down with no Yankees, Cubs, Red Sox, or Phillies. But hey, this is Pomona College—who cares about FOX anyway? This World Series should be watched. These are two towns that have never won a World Series, two teams
Braden Needs To Get Over It
Baseball’s triple play is one of the more rare occurrences in the game. It has only occurred 681 times since 1876. Twice has a season gone by without a single triple play, and only one occurred in nine other years. Some teams will go decades without turning one. More rare,
Realignment: Baseball Should Trust Selig
Major League Baseball is considering a “floating” realignment system that would allow teams to shift leagues and divisions from year to year. The change is designed to encourage competitive balance and help share revenue. Teams not planning on contending could move to tougher, financially powerful divisions like the AL West
Spring Training: Not What You Think
Maybe it’s weird that I gave up three days of skiing in Colorado to watch baseball games in Arizona that “don’t count.” Maybe it’s even weirder that I drove to do so, spending nearly 30 hours of my spring break in the car—alone. Yet, after spending three days in Surprise,
Aroldis Chapman’s Defection from Cuba Should Make Us Reconsider Our Opinions of Athletes
On paper, the story seemed exciting; in reality, it was rather run-of-the-mill. After a failed attempt to escape a year earlier, a man simply took the elevator down to the lobby of the Domina Hotel in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and walked out the front door. A car pulled up
AL West: Looking for Some of that Hope-y, Change-y Stuff
As we turn the page on Obama’s first year in office, we must also leave behind the year that was in America’s past-time. Yet while Obama might not yet have given us “change we can believe in,” at least those of us with no love for the previously dominant Angels
Sister Pitchers Melanie (P-P) and Rebecca (CMS) Gularte Face Off as Cross-Street Rivals Battle
Last weekend was a big one for rivalries. The most publicized one, the Pomona-Pitzer vs. CMS men’s basketball game, was the highest attended 5C sporting event during the weekend. Hours before Saturday’s basketball game, however, another set of rivals squared off: the softball teams of Pomona-Pitzer (1-5, 0-4 SCIAC) and
P-P Softball fall to Athenas, 3-2 and 7-3 in a doubleheader
The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens faced off against their rivals Saturday taking on the CMS Athenas in a double header at home. The Athenas won both games against their rival, as the Sagehens dropped the first game 3-2 and the second 7-3. In the first game, an extremely close, back-and-forth game, sisters